The ancient Polynesians who settled the island of Rapa Nui – formerly known as Easter Island – may have worked out an ...

The large relief was taken from the necropolis of Saqqara’s tomb of Old Kingdom royal vizier Khentika, which had been ...

Now, a 4,500-year-old mystery may finally have been answered thanks to experts who have been examining the Step Pyramid of ...

The incident comes weeks after another incident that shook the archaeological community: the disappearance of a gold bracelet ...

At nearly 3,000 feet above sea level in the misty highlands of West Java, Indonesia, a series of moss-covered stone terraces rise from the earth like an echo from another age. Known locally as Gunung ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home to one of the world's oldest pyramids, the ministry of tourism and ...

A granite inscription tells us that for seven years during the reign of the ancient Egyptian king Djoser, the Nile failed to go through its annual flooding cycle, causing a devastating drought and ...

Early reports suggest the missing painting depicted the ancient Egyptian calendar, which divided the year into three seasons ...

A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt ’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the latest artefact to disappear in ...

A new study suggests that the Step Pyramid of Djoser may have been built using a system way ahead of its time.

The work, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art ...

Egyptian antiquities officials on Sunday said a Pharaonic painting has disappeared from the famed Saqqara necropolis just ...